A 49-year-old man who was convicted of bribing a witness -- by offering a rape victim $5,000 in an effort to stop her from testifying against her attacker -- was sentenced to a minimum of 10 years and a maximum of 30 years in prison Friday.

Given Leonard Lloyd Reinke's criminal history and psychological profile, he was determined to be a “dangerous offender” and sentenced in 2009 to about 23 years in prison. But the Oregon Court of Appeals sent his case back to Multnomah County Circuit Court, saying the law requires that he be sentenced to a range of prison terms.

According to the prosecution: Reinke’s latest run-in with the law began after a friend, Byron O'Neal Willenberg, raped and sodomized a woman in 2008. Reinke had nothing to do with the sexual assault. But shortly after Willenberg's arrest, Reinke told Willenberg’s brother that if the brother gave Reinke $10,000, he’d make sure the victim didn’t testify before a grand jury.

The brother went to police. Police told the victim of Reinke’s plan.

A few days later, Reinke showed up at the victim's home armed with a .22-caliber revolver and offered her $5,000 if she didn’t testify, according to a court documents written by prosecutor Kirsten Snowden. When the victim told Reinke she was going to testify, they argued.

“Ultimately, the defendant told (the victim) “get in the van” and, out of fear for her safety, she complied,” Snowden wrote.

The victim asked to be let out, but Reinke refused. Reinke led police on a high-speed chase. Eventually, police were able to stop him and the victim made her way to grand jury the next day.

Reinke, who said Friday that he entered prison in 2009 thinking he could end up serving as little as 5 years and 10 months, expressed upset at his new prison sentence. He'll have to serve more than nine years -- if he gets time off for good behavior -- before he’s eligible for release by the Oregon Board of Parole and Post-Prison Supervision.

Reinke's criminal history stretches back more than 30 years, and includes robbing an elderly man at knifepoint, assaulting a jail officer, eluding police, identity theft, burglarizing several churches and robbing a church custodian of her car.